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I don't wanna play butch boss with you people.
DIANA: I'd like to see the two of you for a moment.
We don't know the popular reaction. We have to find out.
Well, I don't want any part of it.
...and so does everybody that Howard and I know in this industry.
--and a breach of the consent decree. I don't think Jensen's gonna fire anybody.
And we better start putting together one winner for next September.
That is not the case.
So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now.
...for the first time in five years.
What Mr. Haywood was saying, Ms. Christensen, was that our client...
And no booze today, Howard.
Howard just said he was going to kill himself next Tuesday.
The Dykes.
...and because I personally admired you since I was a kid majoring in speech...
Howard Beale interrupted his Network News program tonight...
The audience out there wants a prophet, even a manufactured one...
I'd go nuts without some kind of work.
Go down to the mail room. As of this minute, over 14,000 telegrams!
...who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.
We're not gonna find a replacement for Howard Beale. Let's stop kidding ourselves.
...in which there's no war or famine...
He listens to you. You're his best friend.
I think you're having a breakdown. Require treatment.
He'll be back on the air for ABC and we'll lose 20 points--
You going to sit still for this, Ed?
HOWARD: I don't mean the whole show...
...as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad.
Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, and keep yelling--
I'd better get him back to my house again tonight.
...will be writing two editorials a week about us.
...unless Beale is taken off the air.
...surpassed only by The Six Million Dollar Man...
I've been telling you people since I took this job six months ago...
Any day now. My wife's out there for the occasion.
So I don't have any bullshit left.
I don't think the show has any substantial syndication value...
But don't worry, I'll come back to you in the end.
I love it.
I'm gonna kill myself.
And you will atone.
It'll be simple, dignified.
Let me think it over.
You guys get it three hours earlier in New York. Clarence, take it easy.
...the Howard Beale Show had settled in on a 42 share...
We either go with Howard Beale or we go without him.
Records of that period are fragmentary, however.
NARRATOR: This story is about Howard Beale...
Tell Snowden when he comes in to let him go on.
...IBM, ITT, AT&T, Dupont, U.S. Steel...
...All in the Family and Phyllis.
We'll be front page, mm, for months.
...celebrating historically deviational terrorism.
And with the specific intention...
...returns to his wife...
Think Ruddy is stupid enough to go to the CCA Board and say:
You're not the worst fuck I've ever had. Believe me, I've had worse.
I couldn't make it out at first in the dark bedroom...
Six million telegrams were received at the White House.
MAN 4: I'm mad as hell! I'm not gonna take this anymore.
Because at the bottom of all our terrified souls...
The network can't be implicated.
...with whom he's established a long and sustaining love.
WOMAN: ...nine, eight, seven, six.
Oh, and that girl from Programming.
It's turning into a seedy little drama.
Hackett told the FBI to fuck off.
MAN [ON TV]: Good evening. Howard Beale, one of television's...
Ms. Mata Hari and her Skeletons in the Closet.
- How are you now? - I'm as mad as a hatter.
One vast and ecumenical holding company...
We're facing heavy opposition on the other networks for Wednesday nights...
I'm not giving him script approval. I'm not cutting him in on my distribution charges.
...the ratings went up five points last night...
...that sells for 100,000 bucks a minute?
I jump out of bed, throw my raincoat over my pajamas.
A series about a bunch of, uh, bank-robbing guerillas?
It's every single one of you out there that's finished.
All I want out of life is a 30 share and a 20 rating.
...and I had an affair with my analyst.
You want me out, you're gonna have to drag me out kicking and screaming...
...working as licensed brokers on Wall Street?
...because we're having a lot of trouble selling The Mao Tse-Tung Hour.
...and I'm talking about a $6 cost per thousand show.
This tube is the Gospel. The ultimate revelation.
...and that can constitute inducement to commit a crime.
...in the person of booby here, comes to me...
- Do you have a favorite restaurant? - I eat anything.
- We're back on in 11 seconds. WOMAN: Ten seconds.
...occurred in full view of his millions of viewers.
...hire writers to write some story behind that footage...
Every other network will grab him the minute he walks.
I have some standing in the industry.
...are turning their dials to Channel 3 and that's our channel!
Sounds like the basis of a firm friendship. We're gonna need more chairs.
Edward George Ruddy was the chairman of the board...
"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!"
But don't worry about me. I'll manage.
And just once I wanted to say what I really felt.
This is not a psychotic episode.
I sold sewing machines and automobile parts...
We have to take whatever we can get.
I have seen the face of God.
WORD! 8o'clock..here we go!
I want out of that 8:00 spot.
Look, I sent you all a concept-analysis report yesterday.
There is only one holistic system of systems.
[DIANA CHUCKLES]
...the news division would be reduced from an independent division...
"Intractable And Adamantine."
Any second that phone's gonna ring and Clarence McElheny is gonna tell me...
I'm going to look at audition footage now!